OFF TOPIC - yesterday

> Yesterday sure looked like it would a relatively peaceful day at 8:30 AM.
> Housework, GS prep and end of year paperwork, maybe a little stitching time
> before I go pick up DS and take him to get his new glasses. (he stepped on
> them last week.) DD is going over to the neighbor's to play with their
> little boy. Come home, get her and take him to skills ice time. Go out for a
> light meal with DD and hit Barnes and Noble. Calm, no rushing....
> Then the phone rings at 2 PM, DD has rock in her ear. The nurse says that I
> knew about it when she left and that her "little brother" put there last
> night. (YEAH, RIGHT)
> Go get her, go get him and start making phone calls - she's not in pain,
> there's no swelling, barely red at all in there. Mostly, DD is embarrassed
> now - she admits that she put it there at recess. The doctor's office is
> laughing and I get an appointment for early evening. OK, get a hold of DH;
> he's laughing even louder than the doctor's office.
> Get the glasses and stop for ice cream on the way home. Rock loosens while
> she's eating and pops out. Get home, DS does homework, eats, drive to rink,
> drive to doctor's office in opposite direction - the rock has lots of sharp
> edges and is longer than wide. PA laughs just as hard was the nurse I
> talked to earlier. No damage, but no shower until tomorrow.
> Finally finish my Wendy's baked potato at 9 PM, too wired to sleep or
> stitch.
> Cheryl

The kid is a natural born clutz (like her mom! <g>) so the falling off

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>
> Cheryl Isaak wrote:
>> Yesterday sure looked like it would a relatively peaceful day at 8:30 AM.
>> Housework, GS prep and end of year paperwork, maybe a little stitching time
>> before I go pick up DS and take him to get his new glasses. (he stepped on
>> them last week.) DD is going over to the neighbor's to play with their
>> little boy. Come home, get her and take him to skills ice time. Go out for a
>> light meal with DD and hit Barnes and Noble. Calm, no rushing....
>>
>> Then the phone rings at 2 PM, DD has rock in her ear. The nurse says that I
>> knew about it when she left and that her "little brother" put there last
>> night. (YEAH, RIGHT)
>>
>> Go get her, go get him and start making phone calls - she's not in pain,
>> there's no swelling, barely red at all in there. Mostly, DD is embarrassed
>> now - she admits that she put it there at recess. The doctor's office is
>> laughing and I get an appointment for early evening. OK, get a hold of DH;
>> he's laughing even louder than the doctor's office.
>>
>> Get the glasses and stop for ice cream on the way home. Rock loosens while
>> she's eating and pops out. Get home, DS does homework, eats, drive to rink,
>> drive to doctor's office in opposite direction - the rock has lots of sharp
>> edges and is longer than wide. PA laughs just as hard was the nurse I
>> talked to earlier. No damage, but no shower until tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Finally finish my Wendy's baked potato at 9 PM, too wired to sleep or
>> stitch.
>>
>> Cheryl
>
>
>
> Would it help to know that my middle dd once told the school that a kid
> on the playground caused her black eye two days before it went livid,
> but told us that she fell off her bed into the door?
>
> She was in 2nd grade, going thru a lying phase. We had a lovely go
> round with the school's guidance counselor, and were damn lucky they
> didn't contact anybody else to report "abuse."
>
> The kid is a natural born clutz (like her mom! <g>) so the falling off
> the bed into the door (yes bed was next to door) was probably the
> closest thing to the truth!
>
> Caryn
>

>Yesterday sure looked like it would a relatively peaceful day at 8:30 AM.
>Housework, GS prep and end of year paperwork, maybe a little stitching time
>before I go pick up DS and take him to get his new glasses. (he stepped on
>them last week.) DD is going over to the neighbor's to play with their
>little boy. Come home, get her and take him to skills ice time. Go out for a
>light meal with DD and hit Barnes and Noble. Calm, no rushing....
>Then the phone rings at 2 PM, DD has rock in her ear. The nurse says that I
>knew about it when she left and that her "little brother" put there last
>night. (YEAH, RIGHT)
>Go get her, go get him and start making phone calls - she's not in pain,
>there's no swelling, barely red at all in there. Mostly, DD is embarrassed
>now - she admits that she put it there at recess. The doctor's office is
>laughing and I get an appointment for early evening. OK, get a hold of DH;
>he's laughing even louder than the doctor's office.
>Get the glasses and stop for ice cream on the way home. Rock loosens while
>she's eating and pops out. Get home, DS does homework, eats, drive to rink,
>drive to doctor's office in opposite direction - the rock has lots of sharp
>edges and is longer than wide. PA laughs just as hard was the nurse I
>talked to earlier. No damage, but no shower until tomorrow.
>Finally finish my Wendy's baked potato at 9 PM, too wired to sleep or
>stitch.
>Cheryl

> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:11:22 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
>
>> Yesterday sure looked like it would a relatively peaceful day at 8:30 AM.
>> Housework, GS prep and end of year paperwork, maybe a little stitching time
>> before I go pick up DS and take him to get his new glasses. (he stepped on
>> them last week.) DD is going over to the neighbor's to play with their
>> little boy. Come home, get her and take him to skills ice time. Go out for a
>> light meal with DD and hit Barnes and Noble. Calm, no rushing....
>>
>> Then the phone rings at 2 PM, DD has rock in her ear. The nurse says that I
>> knew about it when she left and that her "little brother" put there last
>> night. (YEAH, RIGHT)
>>
>> Go get her, go get him and start making phone calls - she's not in pain,
>> there's no swelling, barely red at all in there. Mostly, DD is embarrassed
>> now - she admits that she put it there at recess. The doctor's office is
>> laughing and I get an appointment for early evening. OK, get a hold of DH;
>> he's laughing even louder than the doctor's office.
>>
>> Get the glasses and stop for ice cream on the way home. Rock loosens while
>> she's eating and pops out. Get home, DS does homework, eats, drive to rink,
>> drive to doctor's office in opposite direction - the rock has lots of sharp
>> edges and is longer than wide. PA laughs just as hard was the nurse I
>> talked to earlier. No damage, but no shower until tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Finally finish my Wendy's baked potato at 9 PM, too wired to sleep or
>> stitch.
>>
>> Cheryl
>
> Been in that vicinity before. Joanna was sitting at the desk
> twiddling with a carpenters pencil and twiddled it in her ear and
> broke the end off it. She said nothing and eventually developed a
> sore ear. Finally, after antibiotics did not solve this ear problem,
> the more rustic doctor in Spain said he would syringe her ear. Clunk!
> into the kidney bowl it dropped. Instant cure.
>
> Her siblings were not happy about waiting at the hospital though and
> losing beach time, they still sometimes refer to her a Leadhead lol
>
> Never mind, this too shall pass - kids!